Stein, Ruediger (2026): Total organic carbon in Arctic Ocean surface sediments [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.993011, In: Stein, R (2026): Clay and heavy minerals and total organic carbon in Arctic Ocean surface sediments – Data tables to distribution maps of Stein (2008) [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.992951
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Published: 2026-03-16 • DOI registered: 2026-03-16
Abstract:
This dataset includes TOC values from 3521 surface sediment stations used to produce the distribution map shown in Figure 5-15 of Stein (2008). Distribution map of organic carbon content in Arctic Ocean surface sediments. Map has been compiled using the Ocean Data View software (Schlitzer, 2001) and data from Boström et al. (1984), Hebbeln and Berner (1993), Stein et al., 1994, Naidu et al. (2000, 2004), Stein and Fahl (2000), Stein et al., (2003), Birgel and Stein (2004), Macdonald et al. (2004), Petrova et al. (2004), Vetrov and Romankevich (2004), and Kierdorf (2006), and Pavlidis (www.pangaea.de/search?q=Pavlidis).
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Birgel, Daniel; Stein, Ruediger (2004): Northern Fram Strait and Yermak Plateau: distribution, variability and burial of organic carbon and paleoenvironmental implications. In: Stein, R & Macdonald, R W (eds.), The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 279-294
Boström, Kurt; Thiede, Jörn; Bock, W (1984): YMER-80, Swedish Arctic Expedition. Meddelanden från Stockholms Universitets Geologiska Institution, Department of Geology, Stockholm, 260, 123 pp, https://doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.90.93
Hebbeln, Dierk; Berner, Heinrich (1993): Surface sediment distribution in the Fram Strait. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 40(9), 1731-1745, https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-0637(93)90029-3
Macdonald, R W; Naidu, A Sathy; Yunker, M B; Gobail, C (2004): The Beaufort Sea: Distribution, sources, fluxes, and burial of organic carbon. in: Stein, R, Macdonald, RW (eds.), The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 6-21
Naidu, A Sathy; Cooper, Lee W; Finney, Bruce P; Macdonald, Robie W; Alexander, Clark; Semiletov, Igor P (2000): Organic carbon isotope ratios (d13C) of Arctic Amerasian Continental shelf sediments. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 89(3), 522-532, https://doi.org/10.1007/s005310000121
Naidu, A Sathy; Cooper, Lee W; Grebmeier, Jacqueline M; Whitledge, Terry E; Hameedi, M J (2004): The continental margin of the North Bering-Chukchi Sea: Distribution, sources, fluxes, and burial rates of organic carbon. in: Stein, R, Macdonald, RW (eds.), The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 193-203
Petrova, Vera I; Batova, Galina I; Zinchenko, A G; Kursheva, Anna; Narkevskiy, E V (2004): The East Siberian Sea: Distribution, sources, and burial of organic carbon. in: Stein, R, Macdonald, RW (eds.), The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 204-212
Stein, Ruediger (2008): Arctic Ocean Sediments: Processes, Proxies, and Palaeoenvironmen. Developments in Marine Geology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2, 587 pp
Stein, Ruediger; Fahl, Kirsten (2000): Holocene accumulation of organic carbon at the Laptev Sea continental margin (Arctic Ocean): sources, pathways, and sinks. Geo-Marine Letters, 20(1), 27-36, https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670000028
Stein, Ruediger; Fahl, Kirsten; Dittmers, Klaus Hauke; Niessen, Frank; Stepanets, Oleg V (2003): Holocene siliciclastic and organic carbon fluxes in the Ob and Yenisei estuaries and the adjacent inner Kara Sea: Quantification, variability, and paleoenvironmental implications. In: Stein, R; Fahl, K; Fütterer, D K; Galimov, E M & Stepanets, O V (eds.), Siberian River Run-off in the Kara Sea: Characterisation, Quantification, Variability, and Environmental Significance, 488 pp. Proceedings in Marine Sciences, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 6, 401-432
Stein, Ruediger; Grobe, Hannes; Wahsner, Monika (1994): Organic carbon, carbonate, and clay mineral distributions in eastern central Arctic Ocean surface sediments. Marine Geology, 119(3-4), 269-285, https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(94)90185-6
Vetrov, Alexander A; Romankevich, Evgeny A (2004): The Barents Sea: Distribution, sources, variability, and burial of organic carbon. in: Stein, R, Macdonald, RW (eds.), The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 266-278
References:
Pavlidis, Yury A (2003): Chemical composition of 169 sediment profiles from the Arctic seas [dataset publication series]. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728934
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 74.880953 * Median Longitude: 25.963418 * South-bound Latitude: 56.050000 * West-bound Longitude: -178.870000 * North-bound Latitude: 90.000000 * East-bound Longitude: 179.950000
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Station label | Station | Stein, Ruediger | |||
| 2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Stein, Ruediger | Geocode | ||
| 3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Stein, Ruediger | Geocode | ||
| 4 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Stein, Ruediger | Geocode | |
| 5 | Carbon, organic, total | TOC | % | Stein, Ruediger |
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